...nature which Wordsworth inaugurated, comparing it with a child's return to its mother : — ' He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth.' says Matthew Arnold ; and so Mr. Watson : — ' Thee he approached without distrust or dread," i•••••...

...prison-cell Of festering thoughts and personal fears, Where we had long been doomed to dwell. He laid us, as we lay at birth, On the cool flowery lap of Earth...: Our foreheads felt the wind and rain : Our youth came back ; for there was shed On spirits that had long been dead, Spirits deep-crushed, and closely...

...bound Our souls in its benumbing round, — He ¡»poke and loosed our hearts in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool, flowery lap of earth;...o'er the sunlit fields again; Our foreheads felt the winds and rain. Our youth returned, for there was shed On spirits that had long been dead, Spirits...

...laid us as we lay at birth, On the cool flowery bp of earth; Smiles broke from us, and we had eue. The hills were round us, and the breeze Went o'er...the wind and rain. Our youth return'd; for there was abed • On BpiritH that had long been dead, Spirits dried up and cloeely furl'd — The freshness...

...had bound Our souls in its benumbing round ; He spoke, and loosed our heart in tears ; He laid us, as we lay at birth, On the cool flowery lap of earth...the breeze Went o'er the sunlit fields again : Our youth return'd ; for there was shed On spirits that had long been dead, Spirits dried up, and closely...

...age had bound Our souls in its benumbing round ; He spoke, and loos'd our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth...spirits that had long been dead, Spirits dried up and closely-furl'd, The freshness of the early world. Ah, since dark days still bring to light Man's prudence...

...age had bound Our souls in its benumbing round : He spoke, and loos'd our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth...spirits that had long been dead, Spirits dried up and closely-furl'd, The freshness of the early world. Ah, since dark days still bring to light Man's prudence...

...age had bound Our souls in its benumbing round : He spoke, and loos' d our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth ; Smiles broke from us and we bad ease. The hills were round us, and the breeze Went o'er the sun-lit fields again : Our foreheads...

...spires." This love Mr. Arnold learnt from Wordsworth. Now hear him on his great master himself. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth, Smiles broke from us and we had ease. And again : Keep fresh the grase upon his grave Oh Botha, with thy living wave ! Sing him thy best,...

...pure communion with Nature, whose Author is God. Thus Arnold speaks of Wordsworth : — " He laid us, as we lay at birth, On the cool flowery lap of earth...hills were round us, and the breeze Went o'er the gun-lit fields again ; Our foreheads felt the wind and rain. Our youth returned : for there was shed...